It looks like Judge Pitts is keeping Cambronne v. Meta, now severed, at parties’ stipulation.
The lawsuit originally was a part of the omnibus copyright lawsuit filed originally by author John Carrreyrou and other books authors who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic class settlement. The original lawsuit was basically against all the major U.S. AI companies.
Judge Pitts scratched out the part in the stipulation that Cambronne v. Meta would be referred to Judge Chhabria for possible related case status to Kadrey v. Meta (or other copyright suits v. Meta) over which Judge Chhabria presides.
If the scratching of the related case referral is not due to a procedural issue, Judge Pitts may end up keeping this case at least for now. He still must decide whether to sever the lawsuit involving 6 other AI companies: Google, Anthropic, xAI, Perplexity, Apple, and NVIDIA.
